Welcome to the Lower Mainland Grief Recovery Society

Our Mission

To support the bereaved to rebuild their lives by helping them understand their grief in a safe, confidential environment.

Rebuilding the lives of the bereaved ...

Grieving is a healing process; it is a natural response to loss in our lives. While there are no right or wrong ways to grieve, the Lower Mainland Grief Recovery Society helps people cope and live with their loss by offering programs that help the grieving person move from pain to healing.

Our programs are designed for those who have suffered the death of a significant person. They offer the opportunity to meet in a group, to begin to understand grief and to rebuild your life. The programs are located in Kerrisdale, on the North Shore and if numbers allow, in the West End.

Groups meet once a week for six sessions. Each meeting begins with information about the grieving process and how it may affect you physically and emotionally. Participants are invited to gather in small groups to discuss their experience of the topics raised. No person is obliged to speak, and all are advised that everything shared in the sessions remains strictly confidential. We create a safe environment that allows participants to explore their emotions, hurts, regrets and to discover that others have had similar experiences.

The groups are facilitated by Health Care Professionals and group leaders with special training to enable participants to understand grief and begin their healing process.

Grief is shared and understood ...

The Lower Mainland Grief Recovery Society is a registered chariable organization that has been providing grief recovery programs in the communities of Kerrisdale, the North Shore, Richmond and Vancouver's West End since it was incorporated in 1990.

Recently Lower Mainland Grief Recovery Society has had to institute a fee of $120 for the program. LMGRS is committed to not exclude anyone from the program due to financial need. There are sponsorships and subsidies available. Please speak to the Registrar or Facilitator regarding this assistance.

For information, registration, setting up a special program or to offer support, please contact us.